THE thug who made a rap video glorifying the murder of a Scot cowered in his home yesterday.

Nathan Dixon, 22, refused to answer his door to reporters who wanted to talk to him about the YouTube film.

The Record told yesterday how Dixon, cleared of stabbing Paul Kelly in a lane beside a pub, had starred in an aggressive rap video which included shots of the scene and footage filmed at the flats where Paul lived.

Dixon brags in his rap about leaving someone “bleedin’ in town” and “leaking from the jugular”.

His neighbours were reluctant to talk about him yesterday. One said: “He’s a bad man, that’s all I’m saying.”

Prosecutors at Dixon’s trial in 2008 claimed he murdered Paul after a row then boasted about it.

But his lawyer said Crown witnesses were unreliable and the jury cleared Dixon by majority.

Police said they were aware of the video and were investigating its contents, but had not seen “any incidents of crime being committed”.